Backend Engineer (AWS) (m/w)

Telecommute · Berlin, Germany

Description

Millions of people discover nature with our apps: We help our users find great places and the best routes for cycling and hiking. To help us continue to do so, we are looking for a passionate backend engineer to build the future of outdoor guides with us—and to inspire people to explore more of the great outdoors every day.

As a lean startup, we aim for impact and look for pragmatic solutions based on the latest infrastructure and platforms. As komoot’s next backend engineer, you know the importance of self-healing and scaling systems, you build your software stack accordingly—and you always find simple solutions to complex problems.

Your key responsibilities

Implement new features closely together with our web and mobile developers, designers, copywriters and product managers.

Keep our system state-of-the-art and resilient as load and features increase.

Join the challenge of operating an auto-scaling fleet of 50+ EC2 instances, SQS, DynamoDb, Lambda, Kinesis and more, all within the AWS universe.

Build new and improve existing micro-services, primarily in Java or Kotlin.

Why you will love it

You’ll work on a global product that inspires millions of users.

You’ll get system access on your first day as we know you are a smart and responsible engineer.

You’ll take ownership over your projects from day one (from concept to implementation; testing, deployment and monitoring).